MarTech Integration Lead

Taco Bell; Irvine; Hybrid; GBP 89,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fast-food brand in the United Kingdom is looking for a Senior Associate Manager, MarTech Integration. This hybrid role involves managing the technical activation layer for audience strategy and paid media, ensuring robust data integration and operational excellence. The ideal candidate will have 6 - 8 years of experience in digital marketing, a solid foundation in customer data platforms, and proficiency in SQL. Competitive benefits and a salary range of $118,000 to $138,000 annually are offered.

Benefits

Hybrid work schedule

Onsite childcare

Comprehensive medical & dental

401(k) with matching contribution

Generous parental leave

Qualifications

• 6 - 8 years of experience in paid media, digital marketing, and MarTech execution.
• Proven ability to manage CDPs and MarTech tools.
• Experience in leveraging data for campaign optimization.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day stewardship of CDPs and onboarding platforms.
• Collaborate with data science on model calibration.
• Project manage timelines for MMM updates.

Skills

Paid media

Digital marketing

Audience targeting

SQL

Customer data platforms

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business, Mathematics, Communications, or related field

Tools

BI and reporting tools

Python

Job description

Who is Taco Bell?

Taco Bell was born and raised in California and has been around since 1962. We went from selling everyone’s favorite Crunchy Tacos on the West Coast to a global brand with 8,200+ restaurants, 350 franchise organizations, that serve 42+ million fans each week around the globe. We’re not only the largest Mexican-inspired quick service brand (QSR) in the world, we’re also part of the biggest restaurant group in the world: Yum! Brands.

Much of our fan love and authentic connection with our communities are rooted in being rebels with a cause. From ensuring we use high quality, sustainable ingredients to elevating restaurant technology in ways that hasn’t been done before… we will continue to be inclusive, bold, challenge the status quo and push industry boundaries.

We’re a company that celebrates and advocates for different, has bold self-expression, strives for a better future, and brings the fun while we’re at it. We fuel our culture with real people who bring unique experiences. We inspire and enable our teams and the world to Live Más.

At Taco Bell, we’re Cultural Rebels. Want to join in on the passion-fueled fun? Learn more about the career below.

About the Job:

The Senior Associate Manager, MarTech Integration is a hybrid operator who sits at the intersection of media, measurement, and MarTech. This role turns audience strategy into precise, scalable activation and closed-loop measurement—powering Taco Bell’s future-ready growth and stewarding our in-house marketing analytics capability. You’ll enable $400MM+ in paid media to work harder through cleaner data, smarter targeting, and tighter feedback loops across channels and calendar programs.

Day to day, you’ll own the technical activation layer: translating insights into audience builds, QA, and deployment in platform while maintaining standards for taxonomy, naming, and data hygiene. You’ll manage our CDPs and onboarding platforms for segmentation, syncing, and governance; coordinate with our agency of record and platform partners to ensure clean integrations and deduplicated measurement; and support MMM and emerging solutions by driving data readiness, validating inputs, and operationalizing learnings back into planning.

You’ll partner closely with the Senior Associate Manager of Precision Media to bring audience strategy to life, and work cross‑functionally with CRM, Loyalty, and 3PD so offer strategies are targeted, cost‑aware, and executed flawlessly through a paid media lens. The outcome is a tighter connection between CDP, activation platforms, and analytics—so insights flow forward into targeting and back into planning without friction.

This role is ideal for someone as comfortable in a CDP or basic SQL as they are in campaign planning—someone who can translate between marketing execution and data integration to drive smarter, faster, and measurable media moments. Success looks like faster, more accurate deployments; stronger signal quality for MMM and incrementality reads; and continuous optimization that grows loyalty, acquisition, and transaction frequency.

The Day-to-Day:

• Manage the day-to-day stewardship of CDPs and onboarding platforms, including weekly partner calls, taxonomy governance, and troubleshooting to ensure flawless execution.
• Partner with Spark to align on MMM inputs and outputs, ensuring clean room and MMM models are calibrated with accurate audience definitions, taxonomy alignment, and measurement frameworks.
• Project manage the building and coordination of timelines with cross functional leads to ensure MMM update/model refresh processes and procedures are followed. Assist in post‑model diagnostics and interpretation to connect modeled ROI insights to tactical campaign and audience execution.
• Collaborate with data science team on model calibration and enhancements to measurement solutions.
• Translate audience strategy into technical activation by building, QA’ing, and deploying 1P segments across platforms to fuel Loyalty, Delivery, Calendar, and Pillar campaigns.
• Work cross‑functionally with Loyalty, 3PD, and CRM teams to ensure offers are targeted effectively, launched on time, and managed cost‑efficiently across media and owned channels.
• Serve as the activation point of contact for agency, MarTech partners, and internal stakeholders, ensuring technical readiness for audience deployment, segmentation updates, and measurement pilots. Partner with data and technology teams to ensure MarTech and media data are accurately integrated into measurement environments (e.g. Snowflake).
• Conduct analytics work (e.g. write SQL queries or Python scripts) to identify trends, anomalies, or audience performance insights that inform modeling improvements.
• Collaborate with Insights & Analytics to track, analyze, and report on test‑and‑learn activations, translating results into actionable recommendations for media strategy.
• Maintain data and audience governance standards across CDPs and clean rooms, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and consistency of naming conventions and audience refresh cadences.
• Support cross‑functional campaign planning by ensuring that audience builds and platform integrations are ready ahead of launch timelines.
• Partner with the Senior Associate Manager, Precision Media to connect high‑level audience strategy with flawless technical execution, ensuring a seamless 360 media plan.
• Identify opportunities to improve workflows and automation within Taco Bell’s MarTech stack to speed activation and reduce operational risk.

Is This You?

• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business, Mathematics, Communications, or related field—or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 – 8 years of experience in paid media, digital marketing, and MarTech execution (brand, agency, or platform side).
• Demonstrated success in leveraging data, insights, and analytics to guide audience targeting, campaign optimization, and performance measurement.
• Deep hands‑on experience with customer data platforms (CDPs) and MarTech tools, with proven ability to manage these systems from the execution layer for media.
• Strong understanding of attribution, clean rooms, and measurement frameworks as they apply to paid media and customer activation.
• Working understanding of MMM and MTA, and how they connect to audience activation and campaign measurement.
• Technical fluency with SQL, data QA, and BI/reporting tools. Familiarity with Python or data visualization tools (e.g. Looker, Power BI) is a plus.
• Proven track record of driving customer acquisition, penetration, and frequency growth through precision audience strategies and flawless execution.
• Proven ability to translate between media/marketing, data engineering, and analytics teams to connect marketing needs to technical data solutions. A strategic thinker and self‑starter who thrives in a fast‑paced environment with shifting priorities and multiple stakeholders.
• Highly collaborative with a strong ability to partner cross‑functionally (Loyalty, CRM, 3PD, agencies) and translate complex technical concepts into clear action for business partners.

Work‑Hard, Play‑Hard:

• Hybrid work schedule (onsite expectation Tues, Wed, Thurs) and year‑round flex day Friday.
• Onsite childcare through Bright Horizons.
• Onsite dining center and game room (yes, there is a Taco Bell inside the building).
• Onsite dry cleaning, laundry services, carwash.
• Onsite gym with fitness classes and personal trainer sessions.
• Up to 4 weeks of vacation per year plus holidays and time off for volunteering.
• Generous parental leave for all new parents and adoption assistance program.
• 401(k) with a 6% matching contribution from Yum! Brands with immediate vesting.
• Comprehensive medical & dental including prescription drug benefits and 100% preventive care.
• Discounts, free food, swag and… honestly, too many good benefits to name.

Salary Range: $118,000 to $138,000 annually + bonus eligibility + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

At Taco Bell, we Live M á s and invite you to do the same. Take a seat at our table. Bring your voice. Bring you, just as you are, a Cultural Rebel. We want you to be your best self!

Taco Bell is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to equity, inclusion, and belonging for all dimensions of diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other protected characteristic.

Taco Bell is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities or special needs.

Employment eligibility to work with Taco Bell in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for this position.